However, the reason behind my claim is that Arch excels in many other areas, too, and that’s why I use it as my main operating system.Īrch Linux is a great distro for those who want to learn everything about Linux. Ok, I could be biased because I am an Arch Linux user. No other distro has made such an impressive comeback in my memory.Īrch Linux is the best rolling-release distribution out there. So, now, users can use either the super-stable openSUSE Leap or the always up-to-date openSUSE Tumbleweed.
That’s not all, however openSUSE also announced the release of Tumbleweed, a pure rolling-release version. That means each version will have a much longer life cycle.Īs a result of this move, openSUSE has become a very important distribution because potential SLE users can now use openSUSE Leap.
With this move, openSUSE is also ditching the regular release cycle, and a new version will be released in sync with SLE.
The two distros will share the code base to benefit each other - SUSE will take what’s good in openSUSE and vice versa. Thus, openSUSE became openSUSE Leap, a distribution that’s directly based on SLE SP (service pack) 1. In 2015, openSUSE teams decided to come closer to SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) so that users could have a distribution that shares its DNA with the enterprise server - similar to CentOS and Ubuntu. SUSE is also the sponsor of the community-based distro openSUSE. The company actually predates Linux king Red Hat. SUSE, the company behind openSUSE, is the oldest Linux company it was formed just a year after Linus Torvalds announced Linux. You can also see our list of best distros for 2017. In this article, I have picked some of the best distros that will shine in 2016. And, 2016 is going to be even more exciting. 2015 was a very important year for Linux, both in the enterprise as well as in the consumer space. As a Linux user since 2005, I can see that the operating system has come a long way in the past 10 years.